Archive for the ‘Asha Bhonsle solo’ Category
Even obscure movies can have wonderful music, as I have realised very well by now. And when it comes to finding out about obscure movies, Memsaab Story is just the blog. It is there that I learnt about obscure movies like “Miss Mary”,”Oonche Log”,”Ek Raaz”,”Aaya Toofaan”,”Reporter Raju” etc.Not just that, Greta (Memsaab) can identify lots and lots of humorous situations in these movies ( not intended to be humorous by the makers of these movies, incidentally).
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Dil se main mujhse dil takraa gayaa
Posted on: June 23, 2009
This song is a rare song which few people may have listened to. This song is sung by Asha Bhonsle and it is picturised on Shyama. This song is from a forgotten movie called “Bus Conductor” (1959) and Premnath was the hero in this movie.
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Raat hai sitaaronwaali
Posted on: June 23, 2009
I had posted a nice song from Lata from “Talaash” (1957). Now here is another song from the same movie which is sung by Asha Bhonsle. and what a superb song this is !
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Mere roothhe balam
Posted on: June 22, 2009
“Raaja” (1975) was a movie starring Rishi Kapoor and Sulakshana Pandit, but the movie turned out to be a flop. Perhaps public only wanted to see Rishi Kapoor with Neetu Singh, and Sulakshana Pandit could not be a suitable replacement.
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Mythological movies of Bollywood tended to be C grade movies in Bollywood and they, like stealth bombers escaped the radars of mainstream movie audiences almost entirely.
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Haay tabassum tera
Posted on: June 17, 2009
I was not aware of this movie called “Nishaan” (1965) . Now I have come to know that it was Sanjeev Kumar’s first movie as hero.
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I am seriously considering opening a new category of songs called “Helen” songs. And this category will certainly have many entries, considering that a cabaret by Helen was a must in most mainstream Bollywood movies for much of 1960s and 1970s.
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Toraa man badaa paapi saanwariya
Posted on: June 3, 2009
When we think of a Helen , we think of a cabaret dance. we also think of Asha Bhonsle as the playback singer for this dance.
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“Chacha Chaudhary” (1953), which was one of the earlier movies of Madan Mohan was interesting in the sense that he preferred Asha Bhonsle’s voice over Lata’s voice for female solo songs. Lata’s voice was used only for duets in this movie. Rajinder Krishan was the lyricist.
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